Why Blogging? Deja-vu...or Flash Techniques
Blogging is popular... Do you know that there is an official blog search? Try Google Blog search, where you can search for your favourite blog topics. Try typing "Flash tutorials" and you will be amazed by the number of people who share their thoughts and opinion about Flash.
This week we were writing our comments to other students in class. It was interesting to see what other students think about Flash, I discovered that it was not only me who spent hours and hours to figure out what my mistakes are and how to create a good web page. All the blogs and web pages created by students look really great. I wrote a response to Lawrence's blog where he provided some links to Flash tutorials.
For my Web Page #6 I wanted to use buttons and menu techniques. I also wanted to create something that I can show later to my family and friends as an example of my work created in Information Science Class. As s result I decided to create a small photo album.
I discovered that in Flash you can use several scenes with different frames in them. This is something like several windows, you navigate to them by clicking their names in a scene panel. Buttons will be helpful there to navigate from one scene to another. The main page has pull-down menu, with links to 2 other pages, Albany and Boston pictures. I wanted to create three scences, but I failed at this part. It seems to me that pull-down menu is a movie clip and when creating a link to another scene from this menu it does not see it. That is why I created two different web pages, each for SUNY and Boston. The album is small with only six pictures. It is only for demonstration results. I applied some motion tweening to the main page. After posting everything and looking at the final result I discovered that my pictures (or buttons in Flash) do not work as they are supposed to work. When you point you mouse to any picture a bigger preview appears on the right. But... when you just point your mouse to this empty area on the right some photo comes up. I did not want to get this result. This is the negative moment in creating a button, I think. I could not find any solution to this problem. The "over" frame has this bigger image and it is shown every time you point your mouse to it.
My conclusion here, Flash is a program which can surprise you at the moments when you do not expect any problems to appear. You have to have a good understanding of what you are trying to do and what result you expect.
This week we were writing our comments to other students in class. It was interesting to see what other students think about Flash, I discovered that it was not only me who spent hours and hours to figure out what my mistakes are and how to create a good web page. All the blogs and web pages created by students look really great. I wrote a response to Lawrence's blog where he provided some links to Flash tutorials.
For my Web Page #6 I wanted to use buttons and menu techniques. I also wanted to create something that I can show later to my family and friends as an example of my work created in Information Science Class. As s result I decided to create a small photo album.
I discovered that in Flash you can use several scenes with different frames in them. This is something like several windows, you navigate to them by clicking their names in a scene panel. Buttons will be helpful there to navigate from one scene to another. The main page has pull-down menu, with links to 2 other pages, Albany and Boston pictures. I wanted to create three scences, but I failed at this part. It seems to me that pull-down menu is a movie clip and when creating a link to another scene from this menu it does not see it. That is why I created two different web pages, each for SUNY and Boston. The album is small with only six pictures. It is only for demonstration results. I applied some motion tweening to the main page. After posting everything and looking at the final result I discovered that my pictures (or buttons in Flash) do not work as they are supposed to work. When you point you mouse to any picture a bigger preview appears on the right. But... when you just point your mouse to this empty area on the right some photo comes up. I did not want to get this result. This is the negative moment in creating a button, I think. I could not find any solution to this problem. The "over" frame has this bigger image and it is shown every time you point your mouse to it.
My conclusion here, Flash is a program which can surprise you at the moments when you do not expect any problems to appear. You have to have a good understanding of what you are trying to do and what result you expect.
1 Comments:
I tried the search engine you recommended and found it works pretty well. I did get a lot cool stuff generated from the search there. One of the cool sites is "Cold, Hard Flash," which discuss the idea of extending the application of Flash beyond the web to TV production. It reads like a fresh new thing. I also come across a long list of Flash links from this blog including flash resources, animation news, studios, series, and artists, which I guess will be helpful if we are interested in further exploration on Flash.
We have learned Flash in this class for almost two weeks and I have noticed there is a general consensus on this tool, that is, it is not so easy to master as those previous ones we learned. I like your idea of the photo album you created for assignment #6. Mine shares the common feature with yours in that it is also something based on photos. I created a photo slide show employing a range of techniques in motion and shape tweening with the combined use of animation paths in different frames. Your album has more interactive feature by using button and pull-down menu. The overall layout is also very creative.
As one of the major web design tools Flash is highly powerful in developing animated digital images for the web, and thus it is pretty complex in its functions. I agree with you that it "can surprise you at the moments when you do not expect any problems to appear." You do need to have a very clear vision of what you expect in the end and how to handle it step by step.
Cindy
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